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The Right Honorable Earl Russell to Charles Francis Adams, September 15, 1865
Earl Russell to Mr. Adams
Foreign Office, September 15, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanks the receipt of jour note of the 5th instant, stating that the government of the United States has been apprised of the landing of a cargo of four hundred African negroes, between the 28th and 30th of July last, at La Enseñada de Cochinas, to the westward of Cienfaegos, in the island of Cuba, and that Mr. Bunch, her Majesty’s judge at the Havana, intended to call the attention of the captain general to this matter.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,
RUSSELL.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq.&c.,&c.,&c.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.